Just 50 states

From Wire Reports

Published Sunday, May 11, 2008

In a speech Friday, Obama got the number of states wrong saying, "It is just wonderful to be back in Oregon and over the last 15 months we have traveled to every corner of the United States. I have now been in 57 states. I think one left to go. One left to go -- Alaska and Hawaii, I was not allowed to go even though I really wanted to visit, but my staff would not justify it."

But an aide said Obama did not realize that he said 57, and not 47. The candidate has been to 46 states, not visiting South Dakota, Arkansas, Alaska or Hawaii.